The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography. The combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient historiography as well as a deeper understanding of such authors as Thucydides, Tacitus and Augustine. While much recent work has focused on how ancient historians use emplotment to generate historical meaning, 'Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography' offers a new approach to narrative form as a mode of coming to grips with time.

Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography: Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine

How does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young audience, from picturebooks to young adult novels, the combination of cognitive criticism and children’s literature theory also offers significant insights for literary studies beyond the scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in cognitive criticism, the book provides convincing evidence that reading fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual, emotional and social maturation.

Reading for Learning: Cognitive approaches to children's literature

This article considers how emotions can be conveyed through the interaction of word and image in picturebooks addressed to young readers. The theoretical framework employed in the article develops ideas from cognitive literary theory, adapting it to the specific conditions in which there is a significant difference between the sender’s and the recipient’s cognitive levels. The concept of emotion ekphrasis is used to demonstrate the various ways of representing emotions, and special attention is paid to the issues of mind-reading, empathy and other aspects of recipients’ affective engagement. The theoretical argument is illustrated by picturebooks by Max Velthuijs, Shaun Tan, Anthony Browne, and Maurice Sendak.

Reading Other People’s Minds Through Word and Image

Beyond Mimesis and Convention

The behaviour of people in crowds is rather different from that of the same people in the privacy of their own homes; so much is obvious. But it was the French doctor, writer, and all round intellectual Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) who was the first to consider the difference at book length. His Psychology of Crowds , published in 1895, was a founding text of social psychology.

Le Bon is usually said to have qualified as a doctor in Paris in 1866, though some have disputed whether he ever passed his baccalaureat, let alone his doctorate. Be that as it may, he practised for a time and published widely on such …

The man of the crowd

Introduction Part 1: Narrative as a Form of Knowing 1. Narration and Knowledge 2. The Ends of Narrative" "3. Problems of Holocaust Fiction" "4. The Truth about Stories is that that's All We Are" "5. Narrative and the Fulfillment of Knowledge Part 2: Fiction & Cognition 6. Learning from Literature " "Cognitive Functions of Fiction" "7. Poetry and Cognition 8. Fiction, Simulation, and Knowledge " "9. Nonsense, Logic, and Wishing" "10. Knowledge Across Fictional Worlds and Real Worlds " "11. Drawing Inferences from Literature" "Part 3: The Epistemology of Literary Appreciation 12. Myths and Legends 13. Interpretation, Emergence, and Insight " "14. En Abyme:Internal Models and Cognitive Mapping " "15. The Return of the Represses: Caring about Fiction and its Themes " "

A sense of the world : essays on fiction, narrative, and knowledge

https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/qua/article/download/19899/16450

Poscritto a Giorgio Bassani : saggi in memoria del decimo anniversario della morte

Il saggio si concentra su Tutti giù per terra (1994), Bla bla bla (1997) e Ambarabà (2000), testi che nel loro insieme formano una trilogia sulla esperienza e percezione della città nella società postmoderna. Attraverso una analisi ravvicinata e comparata, il saggio mette in risalto il mutare del fuoco tematico all'interno della trilogia, argomentando che dal binomio città/libertà – fuoco tematico di Tutti giù per terra e Bla bla bla – si passa a quello città/sicurezza, fuoco tematico di Ambarabà. La tesi che viene avanzata è che con questo mutamento tematico Culicchia rappresenta quello che, nella città globale dei nostri giorni, è diventato un vero e proprio desiderio onnipervasivo, ovvero il desiderio di sicurezza, inteso come desiderio di difesa dall'Altro. La città, che già in Bla bla bla era presentata come un tapis roulant di scenari allucinati e giustapposti, assume in Ambarabà, terzo episodio della trilogia di Culicchia, un carattere claustrale e claustrofobico e l'aria che vi si respira è quella di una libertà paradossale e negativa.

http://foi.sagepub.com/content/42/2/313.full.pdf

La trilogia sulla città di giuseppe culicchia

https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/qua/article/download/8981/5948

Between the Visible and the Invisible: Calvino's Cities and Memory

(2008). Viaggio al termine dell'Italia: Il reportage a tesi di Guido Ceronetti. The Italianist: Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 137-161.

Luca Pocci

Papers

A sense of the world : essays on fiction, narrative, and knowledge

Poscritto a Giorgio Bassani : saggi in memoria del decimo anniversario della morte

La trilogia sulla città di giuseppe culicchia

Between the Visible and the Invisible: Calvino's Cities and Memory

Viaggio al termine dell'Italia: Il reportage a tesi di Guido Ceronetti